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many becoming bony achcnia in fruit included in and fixed 

 to the fleshy tube of the calyx. — Prickly shrubs with edd- 

 pinnate haves, stipules cohering with the petiole, and showy, 

 mostly red and white fragrant flowers. 



XATIVE SPECIES. 



1. R. Carolina, L. Swamp Rose. 



Priclhs recurved, often wanting; leaflets 5 to 9, elliptical, cften acute, sharply 

 serrate, glaucous beneath, dull-green above; flowers in corymbs, rarely solitary ; 

 lobes of the calyx very long, appendaged, spreading, with the panichs glandular- 

 bristly : fruit depressed-globose, scmewhat bristly. 



Swamps and low grounds: common. July — Sept. A handsome species 3 to S 

 feet high, erect and bushy, with reddish branches sometimes unarmed. Leaflets 

 1 to 2 inches long. H as wide, somewhat variable in form. Flowers 5 to 7 in ter- 

 minal corymbs. 1'Jals large, crimson, inversely heart^kaped. 



2. R. lucida, Ehr. Low Wild Rose. 



Armed with scattered unequal bristly prickles, mostly deciduous, the stouter 

 persistent prickles nearly straight, slender ; leaflets 5 to 9, lance-elliptical thinir.g 

 •bove, sharp'y serrate; stipuks dilated, long, smooth; peduncles somewhat hisped, 

 1 to 3-flowered; segments of the calyx entire appendaged. spreading but not 

 reflexed \ fruit globose-depressed, hispid or smooth. 



Dry soil or borders of swamps; common. June. July. Sltruh 1 to 3 feet high, 

 slender, with greenish branches. Leaflets 1 to l 1 ^ inches long, half as wide, acuto 

 or obtuse, odd one pcf.olate. Flow, rj rather large, pale red. I'etals inversely 

 heart-shaped. Fi uit small, red, mostly smooth when mature. 



3. R. blanda, Ait. Early Wild Rose. 



Prickles few. straight, slender, deciduous; leaflets 5 to 7, oval or oblong, obtuse, 

 serrate, pale and mostly pubescent beneath ; stipules large : flowers 1 to 3 on s hort 

 smooth peduncles. 



Dry hills and rocks; common. May, June. St- ms 2 to 3 feet high with reddish 

 bark, prickly near the >ase. Brads large, downy. Flu-ers rather large, rose- 

 color. Jtf'a^obcordate. longer than the sepals. Fruit globose, red, crowned with 

 the persistent erect and connivent calyx lobes. 



XATURALIZLD SPECIES. 



4. R. rubigixosa, Ait. Sweet Brier. Eglantine. 



Sti-m smooth, armed with numerous very strong recurved i rickles; leaflets 5 to 

 T, ovate or somewhat rounded with rusty glands beneath, doub'y serrate: flouert 

 mostly solitary ; fruit ovoid or obovate. and with the peduncles 1 i 



Hedges and roadsides: common. June, July. A stout prickly >lrub 4 to 10 

 feet high. Leaflds V; to 1 inch long, - ;; sa wide, acute, bright grjen arove, ru.-ty 

 beneath, and when rubbed over, fragrant. Flom rs solitary or 2 or 3 together, j a'e 

 red, fragrant. Fruit orange-red. crowned with the persistent calyx loles. Varie- 

 ties in cultivation about 25, single and double. 



CULTIVATED EXOTIC SPECIES. 



5. R. gallica, L. Common French Ro<>. 



This is the common red rose of gardens. Stem and petioles armed with numerous 

 fine scattered prickles. Leaflets mostly 5, elliptical or troad oral, thick Jlvrert 

 erect, large; sepals ovate. Fruit ovoid, and with the peduncles L'sped. Numc:ous 



